April 11, 200917 yr Pretty straight-forward 5160 Fighter forged from my 1984 square 5160, mated with some 100+ year old Bakelite and hot-blued mild steel take-down fittings. Dead-on 8" clipped blade and 13 1/4" overall. Not much else to say!
April 11, 200917 yr Dude, radical stuff. Bowies are of a particular interest to me. Very nice indeed!
April 28, 200917 yr Lovely blade and handle very elegant---that must have been one of the first pieces ever made as Bakelite was developed in 1907–1909 by Belgian Dr. Leo Baekeland. Celluloid started in the 1850's and gutta percha in the 1840's. (Bat Masterson preferred gutta percha for the handles of his pistols...) Sorry; I was digging through my 30 year old Mat Sci text book this morning double checking the way iron/steel changes with temp (body centered cubic at low temps to face centered at high temps) and happened to run across the history of plastics blurb... Lovely colour; one of the nicest uses of the early "plastics" I have seen lately was taking celluloid cue balls and scrimshawing them into world globes.
April 29, 200917 yr Author That is correct. The stuff I have was pulled out of the basement of a building built in '07. Jim, that stuff is about 1 1/4" thick.
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